Narrowboat Nightmare: Engine Stalls, Treacherous Obstacles, and a Watery Rescue [Ep 113]
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Engine stalls, a dip in the canal and getting stuck on a fallen tree made todays narrowboat cruise a absolute joy!
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Ahoy! Many thanks for watching - My GoPro has since dried out and is now working perfectly (just a knackered battery whooop! ) 😁🏴☠ For more info such as filming equipment, Music, FAQ and more please visit my website - thepirateboat.co.uk Many thanks again for following our journey ❤🏴☠ Heidi & Bonny xxx
That is wonderful news..
I gotta say Heidi that was a great vid, how many people would jump in the canal like that, Your a hardy rum wench ow’d girl,fair play 👏👌😉
That's brilliant xx
So glad your go pro is ok and everything worked out ok in the end xxxx
@john47jones me for one. I remember that storm, the same week that I rescued a mobile phone from the bottom of a new bit of canal. Nice flat bottom with no accumulation of silt and random load stones to contend with. Felt it with my bare feet and even picked it up with my foot. Would have put my head under or swam down if it came to it - as i did for another person's pair of glasses a week or two later!
Buy a boat they said, cruise canals they said, it will be FUN they said!
😂😂
Best day of the week when Heidi post's another video..
Aww thank you 😃❤️🏴☠️
Isn't it just 😘
First thing to do with any electrical item that gets wet is to take the battery off. Current flowing though water is what causes corrosion and eventually destroys it. Take the battery off then you can run it under the tap, dry it off and it'll be perfectly fine. Tie some cork balls to it for next time it takes a swim!
It’s all dried out but the battery is knackered … luckily I have spares 😃🏴☠️ it’s usually on a magnetic tripod with a magnet mount and I stick it to the side of the boat and everything but I knocked it off in stress 😂😂
Wow! What a miserable day but you kept your chin up and everything worked out.
You certainly earned your rum ration and I’m glad your camera survived.
Thank you, me too 😃❤️🏴☠️
Oh Heidi that was a tough day, but you not only managed to keep smiling through it, with a few curses 🙂 but made me laugh too. A rum, or several, were well in order. Bonnie must be so excited by her new life, new places, new smells, Swans, ducks and new dogs nice food and walks and then she has you too.
Aww thank you 😃🏴☠️
Thanks Lovely Heidi, for taking us along on this beautiful but calamitous cruise, lol. I'm glad that you retrieved your camera and that it still works. I hope that you and Bonny are doing well. Take care and all the best. Stevie
Thanks Stevie 😊🏴☠️
A bin bag round her shaft, and go pro in the drink.
Lilting round a fallen tree, making sure she doesn't sink!
Continuing at a tidy pace, met by gnat's balls in her face.
But the rum was a bigun and went down well.
Worth it, after a day from hell.
Cheers Heidi
😂😂 brilliant
Aww really felt for you Heidi when you had your troubles, but you handled it well, Bonny is so gorgeous ❤
What a nightmare start to the day. You got wet you got stuck, you even dropped a camera into the water. I hope the next day bought you chill times.
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
Grace under pressure, that's what I just watched. You continue to impress me captain!
Thank you 😊🏴☠️
Been watching these for months. Excellent!.
It's all your fault!, well you and Robbie Cummings. I've bought an old Liverpool 58ft cruiser stern. Currently meandering down the Oxford. Weeks with no gas, no running water, no leisure batteries. 6 weeks in now and loving my new life. THANK YOU!!!!
Awww I really do hope you love it as much as I do 😄🏴☠️ good luck and hopefully you will have gas, running water and power very soon 😂😂
Fantastic video yet again, Captain and First Mate Bonny. Thanks for the shout out for The Martineers. Big hugs ❤❤
Cheers 😃🏴☠️
Love your vlogs Heidi !! You show the ups and downs of Narrowboat life. Thankyou 😊
Glad you like them! 😃🏴☠️
Such a crazy day for you Heidi. You are calm, cool and collected. I would have been crying all day. Well done, cheers.
😊 thank you
Oh Heidi xx sending much love some days are just like that! Don't you know!! Made me think of the African Queen x
Brilliant ditty! Casseroled the parrot! Funny. 🤪 Drunk rum all the way through this one! Heck what a to do!
😂 cheers 🏴☠️
Well done Hiedi for getting thru tough times, your brave getting in canal but we'll done for never giving up,it's not always glamorous on the canal so thanks for sharing it with us. You deserved the biggest rum🥃. Take care ☠️👍❤️
Cheers 😃🏴☠️🥃
Wow, What a Day! Yet you are still smiling. I love that about you, no matter what the canals throw at you, you keep going with a smile. Glad your GoPro is not a loss and glad your Lister is still....Listering (?) You are awesome in my books. Thank you {Craig}
Thank you so much! 😃🏴☠️
Hi Heidi. Thank goodness there were no leeches in there.✌.
These kinds of weeks make the good ones that much better.
They really do 😃🏴☠️
Love your adventures and glad you share them with us. ❤
Thank you 😃😂🏴☠️
Oh Heidi, what a terrible start to the day!! Glad you made it to your destination in the end
Thank you 😊
Heidi and Bonny, you're great. What a day but you got through it. Thank goodness it was sunny when you had to go in the canal. So glad your camera survived! :-)
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
Well, that wasn’t a very good day but we all have those to experience. Glad your engine is okay. Too bad about your camera. I hope it will work again. Hang in there girl. You’ve got this. Cheers!
Thanks 👍
You did well there
The joys of canal boats 🏴☠️
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
Well done for getting through all of that! Stay safe and positive, Heidi and Bonny
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
Wow you found it the camera you are so brave yea let it dry out thank you for your time Orlando Florida
Glad everything worked out even on a rough day
Thank you 😊
Bravo! So persistent and patient in the face of adversity. Cheers!
Argh thank goodness it works! and good on you for getting in the water to retrieve it, hats of to you Heidi!!
And beautiful bonny such a lovely girl xx
Take care
Regards Heidi
Hey Heidi, watched, liked and now commenting. 😁 And, as always, thanks. Take care.
You're the best! Thank you 😃😃😃😃
That was a whole lot of bleeping in that episode! It would have been more if it were me though! 😂
Lovely to see you coping creatively with all of it.
Bonny is a darling 💕
Thanks for showing the really bad days, as well as the good days. As a single handed, I also have the Captain Dog, boat share Narrowboat user it is a real morale booster to see the worries you verbalise (not in a pleasant way) and your cool approach to both dealing and sorting them out. Regards MikeH
Aww thanks Mike 😃🏴☠️
Love your spirit, come rain or shine nothing seems to get you down. Pleased you found yer camera in the Cut, but what else could you have done in that situation. You certainly deserved that drink. Keep well Heidi x
Cheers 😃🏴☠️
To end the video on eating casseroled parrot is "mithering me" . Great humour/innuendo. Love it, ms "Howerd".
😂😂
Nothing like a good crank 🐸🐸🐸
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What a great ditty at the end of adventurous day. Cheers woohoo
Thank heavens it wasn't the previous day when it heaved it down, that really would have been the end of the day. The answer, of course, its a MASSIVE rum!! Thank goodness for that. Lumme, the trials and tribulations of being a PIRATE!! Trim the mainbrace and fire a canon or two!! Hard a larboard me hearties. Keep smiling Heidi & little Bonny xx
Aww thank you 😃🏴☠️
Love your vidieos x
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
Not good when things don’t go according to plan. We were setting off for a few days away earlier this week, got the car loaded, dogs in, house locked, car wouldn’t start! New battery needed. These things are sent to try us. Glad you are chugging along again.
Aww I hope you made it 😄🏴☠️
Jumping in to the canal was your African Queen moment - remember when HUMPhrey Bogart had to pull the boat in the swamp. Well done, finding it! Great camera work, and a bit of Bonnie too! Great episode! You have the best long boat channel by far!
awww thank you 😄😄🏴☠️
Oh Heidi…..some moments must seem overwhelming.
But you handled it well and maintained your composure.
Well done!
Great to see Bonny doing so well. Love that little bundle of joy.
Fun stuff (for us!).
👍👍👍👊😎
Aww she is wonderful but she is a bugger with other dogs 😂😂 I’m trying to get her socialised - it’s going to take time 🤣🤣
Dear Heidi, the Rum Wench.
👍👌👏 Very well done again (video and work). In the end you managed everything by yourself. And it looks as if you could even save the GoPro. Congratulations!🎉 Congrats also for always smiling ÷ being so positive.
2) The next thing to do might be taking Bonny to a diving school for making her diving license. So that she can help you with problems under water. 😁 ;-)
3) As a relatively strong, tall man, I would've removed most of the tree as I did 10 years ago when a really big tree fell and blocked a street. All I had was my relatively small but sharp Japanese hand saw and a ton of power (even more than usually because I was in love at that time). I cut through a round about 25 cm diameter tree trunk twice. And through lots of thinner wood. By the way: I like it much better if the narrow channel/canal is without bushes.
4) Please kindly allow me to suggest that you wench use a wrench and test if the bolts are still firm instead of only inspect them by view. Because it's important that the shaft is still firm/strong and in the right place (as you mentioned yourself). ;-) Thanks for consideration.
5) Please kindly also allow me to tell you something: I've seen boat people open and shut the floodgates with a cordless device (relatively strong drill respectively impact drill/wrench). Although it's a good exercise doing it by hand, maybe such a device could help you.
5a) There are special devices for multiplying the torque power for getting off stuck lorry wheel nuts (Vevor brand for instance, round about 60 Euro). Of course you have to wind much more, this device might be able to help you too.
6)The rear entrance kind of Limerick at the end was even more funny this time. I also always wondered where the parrot might have gone. It's not a big portion but I hope it at least tasted well. 😁 ;-)
Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and especially health to both of you.
Thank you - Bonny hates the water 😂😂 We are not allowed to use electric devices on the locks unfortunately as they are over 200 years old and they have been known to damage the paddles and locks out of action then 😂 … I did test the bolts to be honest but couldn’t do it one handed holding the camera - it cost me so much last time so I was very cautious 😂😂
@@TheNarrowboatPirate
Thanks for replying and especially for giving a heart... just a moment! No heart this time? 😱😞😩 Ooooh... sigh, sob.
2) A dog not liking to be in the water? That's quite unusual. Especially if it's a pirate's dog. 😁
3) Good to hear about the tested bolts. I'm relieved now.
4) Electric device not allowed to help with the lock gates? Maybe I watched a much older video then!?
5) But the torque multiplying tool or at least a ratchet (for nuts) will be allowed. At least I guess so. But maybe another narrowboat pilot has already found a solution for the problem.
Sincerely yours.
@@Chr.U.Cas1622 sorry no heart, I’ve rectified 😂😂 I’m trying to respond to everyone’s comments on here and Facebook so it’s taking me a while, thank you so much for taking the time to comment - it means such a lot ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Dear @@TheNarrowboatPirate Lady 🙋
Thanks for replying and especially for giving hearts to my comments (at last! 😁😁). I always and totally appreciate both very much. By the way: Here are two 💚💚, one for the two legged, one for the 4 legged gal.
2) While your channel grows, I guess that you will have to stop little by little to answer all comments (just like every other channel did). Because it simply eats away too much time.
Until then
Cheerio 🙌
You are SUCH a ray of sunshine! I always feel better after watching on of your videos.
Aww thank you 😄🏴☠️
Great news about your camera! Well done for fishing it out; I didn't envy you having to rummage around in the murky depths. Highly entertaining as always. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it 😃🏴☠️
After a day like that it can only get better, hopefully!
on ya girl , you did well , dug deep and came out on top , cheers
❤️❤️❤️❤️ I just drove my Norman 23ft from Ellesmere Port to Chirk. Amazing journey loved the boat life
Sorry you had such a bad day. Hope that they are few and far apart. Still, it's a great video. Be well and stay safe. 😊
Thanks Mark 😃🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate 😊
In the past I have had problems with my prop shaft but a bit of ointment seemed to help 🐸🐸🐸
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It’s always a good day when you post a Vlog. Love to both of you. Keep up the brilliant work with Bonny. She’s adorabubble. Just getting one for ourselves and it’s a rescue too. Lost two dogs in 3 months. Sad times lately…oooppps tearful xxxx
Aww so sad, but all the best with your rescue - little Bonny is keeping me on my toes at the moment as she is a little bugger with big dogs so we working on it very slowly 😄❤️🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate Little dogs make up for their size with big noises at bigger dogs. Mine did too but practise at being annoyed and it’ll improve slowly. Just a loud NO BONNY should do it. Slowly does it and she’ll soon be a marvellous dog. So clever Frenchies…
Heidi, today's video reminded me of the film "African Queen" including the bugs, well none.
Just shows you Heidi we girls can do anything, well done getting out of all your problems today.
Aww thank you 😃🏴☠️
Another great Thursday, glad you got your camera📸 working, be safe 🤘😎🤘
Thank you 🏴☠️😃
Great ditty after such a difficult couple days. Look forward to seeing you weekly.
Oh boy, Murphy’s law is really hitting you hard today. Sorry for Murphy getting you.
Thank you 🏴☠️😃
Spooky. I broke down in exactly the same place in 2003. Mine was the water trap was full and when I hit the side of the lock on the way out it spilled and stalled the engine. Glad you got sorted the GoPro is ok.
I hope your next week is better with no problems. Good thing you kept your head and figured out what the problem was. I don’t think I’d jump into the canal. At least there are no alligators there!
Ooh alligators would make it much more fun 😂😂
Blimey! Not sure I’d have gone into the water!! 😳 Fair play to you, and we’ll done for finding the camera! Great video as always! Miss ya, hope we see you soon xx 😘
Thank you, I needed a wee anyway 😂😂
@@TheNarrowboatPirate 😂😂😂🤣
glad you recovered the footage. I always keep a tupper wear with rice in it to dump in phone or camera / dries out quickly. absolutely LOVE your channel
What a day! Well done for seeing it through! 🥃 Cheers!
Thank you! Cheers!
Well done Heidi for getting through all that was thrown at you on this day in your vlog….it’s a pain when you get problems in the middle of nowhere but the silence, after your engine cuts helps you think through how to fix things! My other half got our centre rope snagged around our prop and it took him an hour to release it, hence we shortened the centre rope soon after that!🙄wont do that again…👍😊
I’ve done that too (kicked my back rope in) absolute nightmare 😂😂
Another great entertaining video, Heidi the canal mermaid, awsome, glad everything was eventually OK.
Wow! I am (as usual) in a kind of hurry and prone to skip a few seconds of the video now and then ... but after this intro, I'll stick to the whole video! (and now the comments)
Looks like a fab mooring with your friend - but yes, at times you need to go to a city to get supplies ... (and to train your dog)
nah, don't beep that "bollo**s should be allowed ... 😉 but this one seems to be a big sh**y one! Thinking that a GoPro might even have survived that water! But WTF about your engine?
CONGRATULATIONS for finding your cam! Hope you'll retrieve some!
NOW for the engine! - and a bit of a shower is always a good idea! Glad you managed to retrieve the data from the card! And good you can move on!
and WOW with full blast you got around that grounding! Kind of a victory, isn't it! I really can imagine how that feels! And hey, can't you get a more impressive horn?
Rear Entrance Stuff:
When everything drops, trust your magnet
Down to get wet yourself
With patience you will retrieve what
You dropped, got to blame just yourself!
But that's what boating's about: that
It all comes back to yourself.
You'll have to do stuff on your own
There won't be any helping elf!
What a hell of a day you had Heidi. I think you deserved a double rum after that one. Have a good week and glad to hear your GoPro is working after drying out. Looking forward to the next episode.
Greetings from California,USA! Love your channel! Confused about why you boaters do not saw, cut, trim or chop the channel obstructions yourselves? ☠️☠️🍀
Sometimes they do, like in a few of my winter videos when a lot of boaters got together and we went wood gathering. It all depends as a lot of the time the land opposite is private and we aren’t allowed … it also depends on access, if you can get your boat in, how shallow etc … I can’t often stop to trim trees etc as a single hander as no one to hold my boat for me and too dangerous to jump off into massive overgrown bushes as lots of boaters with crew have broken legs doing this 😃🏴☠️
Thanks
Wow Sid, thank you so much ❤️❤️🏴☠️
Ahhhh your roof window box thing,now I’ve seen it from the inside 😃😃
Hello Heidi mick from Hull I hope you're boat is OK now and I will look forward to your next episode xx 😊😊
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
Love the ditty.
Heidi, I don't know how you do it on your own, myself ( captain Dave) and Jolly Roger Brain. Used to navigate the River avon from Stratford-on-Avon to Tewkesbury on a river inpection in conjunction with the Lower Avon navigation Trust when were working, it was hard work enough for us two reprobates. More power to you. Happy moorings.
Best thing I ever bought was a go windless. Absolutely brilliant on the Oxford canal. Definitely recommend.
Great vlog Bonnie's a lovely lass well done xx
Thanks so much 😊
@TheNarrowboatPirate you handled the hiccups very well you wouldn't think a black bag could be so much hassle hope the camera is OK xx
Great video as always Heidi xx
Thank you!! 😊
What an adventure, today.
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
Victory over adversity. Well done Heidi!❤😄🇦🇺
Nice video, nice ditty, all good in the end, what an interesting engine your boat has. Keep em coming.
Watching for a while, tried your spiced Kraken Rummmmmmmmm the other day, you may have unloosed a tiger. Subscribed today, keep going! Dreamseeke, Ontario Canada
Cheers 😂😂 it’s lovely isn’t it and thank you 😃🏴☠️🥃
Ohh My Always a pleasure to watch your vlogs an see you and now bonny too. Weed hatch be Damned it's always a pain; And we can see why you show it so much disdain. But the Camera is rescued to our great Delight, but you didn't get your tee Shirt wet ..it's why I made a big sigh!. happy boating Cap'n! be safe . we all love ya!🦜🥃🏴☠
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I watched this at twenty to eleven on Thursday as normal. Iook forward to it I wish I could do it but I've had a stroke and there's no chance of it
Aww sorry Vincent, hopefully you are on the mend, thank you for watching ❤️🏴☠️
Working nights this week and next, bleedy missed the video at 6pm, only realised when I was wasting time on Facebook 🙄… highlight of the week Heidi. What a nightmare for you this time…? Take care lovey …
Aww thanks so much 😃🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate you are worth it Heidi, we love the channel…
Let's hope this day was a one-off. All you needed to complete such a disastrous day was to drop a full bottle of rum overboard after removing the stopper! You have a naturally sunny disposition and it takes a lot to make you gloomy. All the best and may all the lock gates be in your favour.
John, Ontario, Canada
😂😂 not the rum 😂😂🏴☠️
Well that's a go back to bed and hide under the covers day. I think that I would have just sat down and cried. No not really but things going wrong usually happen in 3's so hopefully that's it for a while. Lucky about the memory card, take care as always. Hug that wee girl and thanks for my trip this week. =-)
Aww thanks for joining me again, have a great day 😃🏴☠️
Go pro offer an accessory called a floaty back door ( I kid you not😂..its basically block of water proof foam which is bright orange ..I've got one and can recommend
I have one too but they don’t fit on with the media mod and I need that for charging and connecting the microphone 😩 luckily it’s all dried out now and just a knackered battery 😃🏴☠️
Felt for you at every obstacle that plagued you in this vlog - too many for one day!
Where were Rosie and Jim this week? Always look to see what they are doing.
They were there … you have to watch out for them somewhere 🏴☠️🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate Aha found them hehe
I’m mixing it up a bit to keep you on your toes 😂😂
Now I am retired I have the option of putting things off.have repaired cars trucks and most things with engines if I touch something in the morning and nothing works I try another day have fun baby sitting my son's 18 month male German shepherd great dog ,95lbs 🎉
Dogs are the best distraction 😃❤️🏴☠️
Great one as usual, and so much drama. Thank you
Her GoPro sunk so ways assayed,
To raise it up thus plans are made,
To enter cut and begin to wade,
Our pirate now a damn mermaid,
And FOUND as hope began to fade,
Her bounty raised aloft, its duty paid,
Thus triumphant the canal she bade,
Farewell to celebrate with cool lemonad . . .
F**k it, I'll have a rum.
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Thank you for sharing your adventure! Just found your channel and subscribed. Cheers!
Couldn’t believe you went into the canal, well done😂❤❤
Thanks 😅 😂
Very sorry you had one of those days when nothing seems to go right but we all have a day like that once in a while. I hope that is the worst of it. Best of luck from here on.
In one of your previous videos you asked what we called a cup of coffee, your name for it was "brew", sometimes here in Canada we refer to a "Brew" as a "Cup of Mud", mostly when it is old and too strong but not always.
Cheers 😃🏴☠️
Wow, when you come up out of the canal I was expecting to see Leeches and blood suckers hanging off of you. Sorry for your rotten day of Adventure. It made for a good vlog for us though,lol. Stay safe the 2 of you.
Haha they don’t have leaches over here thankfully 😃🏴☠️
Two wins in one day👏🏻👍
Personally mg approach to fallen trees is to inspect first, then iff ii think I can squeeze through, I approach at ramming speed, but wind the engine down and into neutral just before the prop passes thee tree to avoid and drive shaft damage. Wwithh luck, momentum carries us through.
I knew it was passable from fellow boaters thankfully
Agreed, ramming speed, aye captain.
Sometimes a small grappling hook (very privateer style) us better than a magnetic in retrieving stuff.. I have a normal size one, but also a really small one made of heavy steel wire. Worth having handy for these times..
It was on a magnetic mount and couldn’t see in the water
Oh dear what a difficult day for you. We hope that your camera works when it finally dries out🤞🤞. We will just have to tune into your next episode to find out 😊😊
It survived!!! Just knackered battery but I buy spares often as they don’t last long 😄🏴☠️
Luv you're video and that she,ll be right attitude.... Travel well..